About 330,000 Romanian soldiers who died in battle or while being held hostage were commemorated at the Cemetery of Romanian Heroes in Feștelița village of Ștefan Vodă district. All of them placed the country’s interest above their own existence. At the commemoration ceremony, Romania’s Ambassador in Chisinau Daniel Ioniță said the Romanian soldiers fought with sacrifice and courage to build current Romania: a modern state anchored in the realities of the 21st century. “We are members of the EU and NATO. We are a state that tries to promote stability and security in the geographical region to which it belongs by everything it does. This wouldn’t have been possible without the sacrifice and blood shed by our soldiers,” stated Daniel Ioniță.

Citizens’ interest in getting involved in the public and administrative life of the local communities is low. On the other hand, local public authorities do not stimulate citizens’ participation, even if their involvement improves the performance and image of democratic institutions, says a study presented by CONTACT Center. At the same time, more than half of the respondents said they were very satisfied and satisfied with the way they were able to access information of public interest (58.9%). It cannot be different between relatives!

But kinship does not help when the Court of Auditors comes. The MPs examined the Court of Auditors’ annual report on the management and utilization of public funds and property in October 2017 – September 2018. As a result of inspections, the Court formulated 211 recommendations, all of these being discussed and accepted by the audited entities. However, the Court in the period issued the law enforcement agencies with materials about 13 audit missions with suspicions of fraud. There were started two criminal cases and issued three refusals to take legal action, while eight materials are being examined. But no one seems to be bothered.

There is much greater fuss on the political arena. Socialist MP Grigore Novac said the pro-Moldova strategy of the Democratic Party banks on the voters of the center and the left and this is a mistake.  Chairman of the Movement “Voievod” Nicolae Pascaru stated the Democratic Party captured the whole electoral space. “It has ruled for a long period of time and solves all the problems with the assistance of the Prosecutor’s Office. I cannot say there is democracy in Moldova. There are districts where everyone converted to the PDM as Jehovah’s Witnesses,” he said.

Their opponents consider yet things stand very well. Democratic MP Eugen Nikiforchuk said it is important that the Republic of Moldova keep the pro-European development model, which the PDM considers is the best solution for the country. “All the projects existing in the country should be implemented first of all for the citizens of the Republic of Moldova and the effects of these policies should be felt by the people,” he stated.

The sky will become narrower for the judges arrested by officers of the National Anticorruption Center. A judge will stay in custody for 30 days, while another two judges for 20 days. Two judges were placed under house arrest for 30 days, as was the prosecutor.

Former judge at the ECHR Stanislav Pavlovski wondered why now and why these judges were arrested. “Why did they take this step? There are several possible answers and I think one of these is that some of these judges consider that they can do everything they want if they work together  with the government. They probably crossed a particular limit in their activity,” stated Stanislav Pavlovski.

As “the show must go on!”, a bomb threat was reported at the Botanica branch of the Chisinau City Court. Contacted by IPN, press office of the Chisinau Police Svetlana Scripnic said all the competent services intervened and are examining the scene.

A revolution is prefigured in the organization of school nutrition: the administration of education institutions starting with the 2019-2020 school year will use catering services or will apply the model of school combines. The leasing out of school eateries to specialized business entities that would provide catering services is another solution.

Secretary of state at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research Angela Kutasevich, in a meeting staged by the National Food Safety Agency on October 25, said the current system of organizing the feeding of students needs to be resuscitated.

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